The Press: Censorship in Spain

In Madrid last week, New York Timesman Sam Pope Brewer left his press
card at the Spanish Ministry of Education for the renewal required
every six months. Next day, Reporter Brewer was summoned to the
ministry, told that his press credentials had been canceled because his
reporting, and the Times's "attitude," had been "generally biased and
unfair toward Spain." He was told he would have to leave Spain by June
6.

To Brewer and the six other U.S. correspondents in Madrid,* the news
confirmed their suspicions that the Spanish government, which protests
it...